Life360
Senior Director, Analytics and Data Science, Core Product & Growth
Remote, USA; Remote, Canada · Director
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About the role
- The Data & Analytics Team (DnA) is a 60+ person organization spanning data engineering, analytics engineering, analytics/decision science, and data science/ML.
- The science teams are organized into two sub teams, focusing on MAU and Revenue.
- You and your team will be responsible for understanding the drivers behind MAU: why members come, why they stay, and why they return.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop the decision scientists and data scientists on the team, and set the quality bar for both disciplines.
- Own the MAU driver model and the forecast.
- Own the exploratory work that drives the strategy to grow MAU.
- Partner with your Revenue counterpart and Data Engineering leadership to define common metrics, align on experimentation standards, and introduce unified operating practices across teams.
- Build the operating model that gets the team into the roadmap conversation early, with a view on what to build and what to test.
- Deep expertise in inferential and causal analytics. Able to lead ML practitioners.
- Our company's mission-driven culture is guided by our shared values to create a trusted work environment where you can bring your authentic self to work and make a positive difference
- Members Before Metrics - We focus on building an exceptional experience for families.
Requirements
- 10+ years in analytics, data science, or decision science, including 5+ years in people management in a senior leadership role.
- Deep expertise in inferential and causal analytics.
- Expert knowledge of engagement, retention, churn, and cohort metrics.
- Experience forecasting a company-level metric and being held to it.
- Experience with Databricks, third party experimentation tools (e.g. Statsig), Tableau or similar BI tools, and AI native BI tools (e.g. Hex, AI/BI).
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
- Required Experience & Qualifications
Nice to have
- Master's degree or PhD with an emphasis in social science, psychology or other behavioral science.
- Experience leading a team that reports to you but sits embedded with product and engineering teams.
- Experience in a B2C subscription business.
- Core Expectations
- You have moved an analytics team from reactive to embedded.
- On your teams, analysis starts from a hypothesis rather than a data request.
- You have built the standards a team works from, and got people to use them.
- You are curious about why people behave the way they do, not just what they did.
Compensation
- For candidates based in the US, the salary range for this position is $247,000 to $366,000 USD.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans (100% paid for US employees).
- We offer life and disability as well as supplemental plans for medical and dental for Canadian employees.
- Paid parental leave
- Mental Wellness Program & Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental well-being
- Generous time off: flexible PTO, companywide holidays throughout the year plus summer and winter shutdowns
- Learning & Development programs
- Equipment, tools, and reimbursement support for a productive remote environment.
Company info
- This role leads decision science and data science within MAU.
- what gets delegated to agents, what gets automated, and what stays human judgment.
- Our data is unusual for a consumer company.
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